Nethergarment.



' To aZZ whom it rrtay,comern.- y l Be it known that LBERTHOLD L. RICH,a' l BER'rHoLD n- BICH, or Wasiiruerom Drsrmor encontrarme.

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citizenV of the United Statua. residing at lvllr'ashington, in theDistrictLv of Columbia, have invented certain new and following is aspecification.

This invention relates to eert-ain new and l useful improvements innethengarments, and

of the garment an enlarged scale.

talns no rubber,

'particularly to i athletic and othenI short drawers, and it consists ofa bifurcated-garment having permanently secured to" it by stitching, atubular knitted tab of substan. vtial length, the upper and majorportion 'of which is formed of a tube of loosely-knitted material havingelasticity in the direction of its length, said lower end and ofnarrower and more closely knitted con!I struction, as fl willhereinafter describe and claim. I

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification and `inwhich simi-- lar reference characters indicate like parts in the severalviews ;-Fig`ure l represents a nethengarrnent having my improvementapplied thereto. Fig. 2 is a view of a portion' showing .the attachmenton In carrying out Aniy invention, to use thesame in connection withnethergarments of different lengths; in fact the attachment isapplicable to garments lof various types and therefore is not limited toany particular style or length of garment, but is hast adapted toshort'drawers.

lt is well known that there aremany objections to the use of theordinary hose sup porter in connection "with nether-garments, and thatwhere such supporters employ elastic webbing, cords and the like, theelasticity of 'the rubber used :s quickly destroyed by the ilardeningorother deterioration of the rubber due largely to holding the rubberunder tension when the device is in use.

An object of the present construction is to provide a nether-garmentwith a permanently attached tab of substantial length and one which isformed of knitted material possessing inherent elasticity and which'conand which may be washed when the garment is sent to the laundry"without danger of the' flexibility or elasticity Specification ofLettersPatent. l n vljtented application-nieu March' a, 1912. serial notdensas.

"'ing therefrom i ner. useful lm 'provenientsjin Nethergarrnents,of-which the l ,B, this tab beingofsubst-antial haying 4its lower .end

tube being contracted at the'.` merging linto a strap portion lI proposeofl the i tab. being destroyed or materially essened, said tab havingmeans for supportnether-garment Vof any ofthe well known designs, andwhich may represent any article of apparel which would require or makeadvisable .the useof means fof supporting from said garment the hose ofa wearer,

Near the lower end of the leg portion of the garment is permanentlyfastened a tab, length and i provided with any well knownform of-'clasp-or device, C, adapted to engage and supporta hose, said tab havlng alsosome appropriate buckle or like device, D, for ad}usting the length ofthe lower folded portion of the ta The tab has its upper end securelystitched to a piece of fabric, E, which in turni is stitched permanentlyto the leg portion of the garment. The tab is formed upper portion beingso loosely knit-ted as to give to the tab suiiicient elasticityin thedirection of its 'length to enable yit to yield under any strain towhich it may be put; this elasticityA is inherent, in the material oet.29,1912.

a -hosein the ordinary man- In the said drawing, A, represents a..

of knitted material, the

itself and is not the result of incorporating into the tab any rubber oradditional ele` ment possessing elasticity. In other words I dependpurely upon the elasticity inherent 'to knitting the tab loosely intubular form forI have found that when the tab is so constructed thereis ample elasticity-provided fgr the purpose of lsuitably supporting thehose. The garment with the permanently attached tab may be laundried anynumber of times without destroying the elasticity of the tab and thereare no portions of the tab i which will deteriorate because ofrepeated Iwashing.

The tab, as before stated, is knitted in tubular form, and the lowerportion of the tab is constructed or made narrower to form a strapportion of a-closely knitted and substantially inelastic character. Thisstrap portion7 F, passes over a cross-bar of the buckle, D,fand is thenfolded and returned upon itself `and over the, cross-bar ofthe in thewell' known manner, whereby the buckle may be adjusted tol increase ordebuckle and has its end secured by stitching,

` strapdp p folde portion of the s tralF, is. secured the crease thelength "of the. loo ed or folded ortlo'n of the tab. In tv e bight ofthe ordinary vclasp or lo well known form of; hose.

A garment ofthe character described, can bermanufactured with but littleadditional cost and it combines Permanently with the garment, asuitablemeans for lsu porti-ng hose and which'means is producl -With a Or- S'Omeother evice for yengaging a total absence of rubber or elastic commonlyused in'supporters. As the tab may be laun dried with the garment itselfitismanifest that itis more Sanitary than-'those supporters-.which areseparate from the arment and which are of such a character t 'at theycan not be'successfully laundried 'and which supporters almostinvariably use elastic which deteriorates and'harden and loses itselasticity often after but'slight use.,A

Having thus deseribedmyinvention *what*A I claim as new and desire tosecure by- Let-- ters l-atent is AS an article of manufacture, anetherstantial length permanenti -attached to it, said tab beingcomposed o tubular knitted fabric having one portion loosely knitted togive inherent elasticity. to the vtab in the direction of its length,and having a second portion of reduced width andclosely lknit- .ted andfolded upon itself, a hosey supportin member carried by the folded'closely- .kmtted portion'oflthe tab, and a member also carried by theclosely-knitted portion of vthe tab for adjusting the length of thtfolded portion of the same. v

In testimon whereof I aflix my signature in presence o Y* two Witnesses.

. BERTHOLD L. RICH.- Witnesses: R. A.NEWMAN, JOHN F. COOK.

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garment having a loose. fabric tab of sub-

